Now i've also experimented with different wildcards for my path in

file_paths

. have tried all listed variants: C:\Windows\Temp\ <- should monitor for changes to files/directories within Temp C:\Windows\Temp\% <- same as above C:\Windows\Temp\%% <- monitor for changes to files/directories recursively within Temp Is my logic on the wildcards correct?

I'm no expert on our FIM configs, but I think if you don't have the trailing % then you would just be monitoring the temp dir itself and not the contents.